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I need to do this as well. I use most messengers out there and it serves a purpose to separate them into groups of different friends. The problem is that some of them still use the…

This would not work in Brazil, at least currently, where our 3G/4G are laughable... But it's a good start. The machine learning applicability could be awesome. Maybe one day we can…

I took a linguistics class a couple of years ago. The cognitive advantages are so extensive because according to a school of thought (Chomsky and Pinker) language itself is part of…

How about WhatsApp's backend being extremely scalable because it was written in Erlang from the start? Or even Twitter that rewrote much of their backend in Scala to deal with scal…

Even if their kids aren't left with much money, they will definitely leverage their parents' influence across so many areas and be able to do anything they want.

Soon we will start seeing news of young graduates committing crime to pay off their student loans. Heck, it would be interesting to see a movie with this plot line.

Maybe there could be a new kind of social network, one where in order to maintain your online friendship connections, you have to occasionally/physically get together with your fri…

Sensationalist title but there are some parts with which I agree to some extent. I've heard about Meteor over a year ago but never thought about a use case where I felt the need to…

If finding a Scala position in the US (I assume) is already this difficult, here in Brazil it's infinitely harder. I guess our startup is one of the very few that has a fairly larg…

So going from "I don't read resumes" and "I don't care about your resume" to "I usually read resumes" seems a bit self-contradicting. Regardless, I agree with your point of view. W…

It's also partyland for employees who work at customs. They claim that they take the abandoned products and sell it in auction...

Yes, this happens a lot. This is also why the US opened a lot of new consulates in Brazil to keep up with the tourist visa demand.

This is not entirely true. Even if you factor in the plethora of taxes Brazilians businesses and customers are "enslaved" to pay, it still should not be this abusive. In Brazil, pe…

Including the airfare and import tax, it's still cheaper.

I'm surprised no one mentioned the exorbitant prices of electronics in Brazil compared to the US. For example, the top of the line Macbook 15" retina in the Brazilian Apple store c…

Shouldn't this problem be hugely mitigated by putting rubber or any non-slippery material on the shower floor?

Two years ago I had to make a similar decision compared to what the OP did. I was about halfway through a top US university degree as an international student but suddenly excremen…

I signed up for almost all of them too. It's hard to choose which ones to fully dive into. I guess since they'll probably offer them again and again, I'll take one/two at a time.

With so many online courses happening concurrently, how are you guys choosing which courses to actually do? I work full-time and I find it really hard to squeeze some free time.